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Ink-Credible Dottie Bruce
Written By: Zach Claxton - Highlands-Cashiers Art League | Issue: 2018/06 - June
June’s Art League of Highlands-Cashiers meeting will be in The Bascom atrium starting at 5:00 P.M. on Monday, June 25, and will be preceded by a wine reception at 4:40 P.M. The presentation will feature local artist Dottie Bruce.
Ms. Bruce, a current board member of the Art League and former president, splits her time between her homes in Greenville, South Carolina, and Cashiers, where she maintains a studio. She has become an accomplished artist over the past 25 years, following a successful career as an interior designer. While working as a designer, she taught courses in paint treatments and interior design at the Spruill Art School in Atlanta, and with a partner owned the Greenville Design Studio in Greenville, South Carolina.
Her interest in fine art began more than two decades ago, with mixed media being her medium of choice. She studied under several well-known artists and developed her own style, which became commercially successful.
About four years ago, she chanced to see a painting online with colors so vibrant, that she felt compelled to learn how it was done, and found it to have been created with alcohol inks, at the
time a relatively unknown medium. Little information about it was readily available, but through much research, she self-taught herself in its application.
Today, most of what she sells at various shows is in that medium. She has taught the alcohol inks art form at the Greenville Center for Creative Arts and in September will teach a similar course at the Bascom.
We are delighted that Ms. Bruce will give an overview of painting with alcohol inks at the June meeting. This promises to be an enlightening presentation from an extremely talented member of the Art League. The presentation and reception are both free and the public is invited to attend.
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